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Media Bits and Bytes - May 21, 2019

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Breaking up big tech; Internet iron curtain; Ditching the social network; Vaccinating against fake news; Big media, little media; Going indie; WhatsApp hacked

The Yellow Vests of France: Six Months of Struggle

Richard Greeman Socialist Project
Six months ago, on November 17, 2018, Yellow Vests burst ‘out of nowhere’, with autonomous local units springing up all over France like mushrooms. The immediate cause was to protest an unfair tax on fuel, but demands expanded quickly...

5 Ways You Can Support the School Climate Strikes

350.org Team 350.org
Over 1.6 million students across the globe have been striking on Fridays: for the climate, for our future. Here’s 5 ways you can support students going out on strike again on 24 May, and answer their call for real climate action.

Elder Care Homes Rake in Profits as Workers Earn a Pittance

Jennifer Gollan AP
Residential senior care homes profit handsomely by paying their workers poverty wages. The profit margins can be huge and, for violators of labor laws, hinge on the widespread exploitation of thousands of caretakers, many of them poor

Arctic Word Games or Indigenous Survival?

Mark Trahant Indian Country Today
Indigenous leaders call climate change an urgent threat that requires a global response (an idea that was trashed by the Trump administration).